Officially official: the Z-series is dead, confirms Sony, long live the X-line
The new X-series is taking over Sony's aging Z-line
The Xperia Z line has reached its culmination – Xperia X series represents a new chapter and evolution of our product strategy. Whilst the Xperia Z series was all about bringing the best of Sony’s advanced technologies to smartphones, Xperia X series is based on bringing smart, adaptive Sony user experiences across camera, battery performance and hardware / software design.
We'd say good riddance, as the Z-series was getting a bit long in the tooth, and it either had to undergo a radical redesign, or be swapped for some fresh new line completely, which Sony apparently did with the Xperia X, X Performance, and XA trio of phones.
With the Z-line, Sony acquired the nasty habit to make your phone obsolete just after six months, releasing the next Z number, whereas between the Z5 trio announcement and the X-series launch in June there will now be a more palatable time gap. Are you sad to eventually see the Z-line go?
source: GSMArena
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